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A Handbook Of English Literature.* Mb. Dobson Writes A...

introduction to this Handbook which does him credit :— " It is simply designed," he says, "to give a concise, and as a rule, chronological account of the principal English......

A Library Novel.*

SomE months ago, a novel was published by a gentleman of the name of Mark Hope, which was compared by some critics to the - work of Mr. Charles Heade, and which unquestionably......